Opening a .fla between Mac and PC

I'm using Flash CS3 on Mac and I'm giving a banner design saved as a .fla to another designer with Flash CS4 on PC. We are unable to open each other's files. Is there a setting to save for cross platform? Thanks

the cs4 flash has to save for cs3. that option is available when you use save as.

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Adobe please tell me I'm missing something here or at least acknowledge the problem and explain the cause.
This problem has plagued flash for as long as I can remember. None of the other applications (Photoshop, Illustrator etc) have this problem. It wastes huge amounts of time and causes massive quality control issues especially when outsourcing work.
We're using CS3 now and the problem is as bad as ever. It happens with all text fields and all font types.
Please help.

Don't get your hopes up that anyone from Adobe will see your posting. These are user to user forums and appearances by anyone from Adobe are rare.
suggestions to Adobe - Wishlist
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
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I'm doing work reviewing flash files created by other users
on mac and windows. I'm using os x 10.5.6. When I open a file
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file.
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mini with vista installed on a bootcamp partition. When opening
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http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/
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Hello,
Would you be able to send me your log files so I can better see what might be causing this issue issue. I will need Logs from both your Mac and Windows machines please.
You can find your log files at...
Mac:
/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CoreSync
Windows:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CoreSync
'Library' on Mac and 'AppData' on Windows are both hidden folders. Please read these pages for help on showing these folders:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/show-hidden-files-folders-extensions.html (Win)
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/access-hidden-user-library-files.html (Mac)
please upload them to Creative Cloud and send me a link to the logs at [email protected]
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Hello,
I am new in using Mac and recently I buy a IMac 24" model.
I used to use PC a long time with a lot of old document.
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Hi Eric and welcome to Discussions and the Apple world.
Mac OSX can read and write from Windows partitions (like the BootCamp Windows partition you are about to create) when using FAT32 as file system for Windows.
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